Mutual Dischord
Look at things from my point of view. All I want is to have a world where things happen a bit differently, a world where everything is made of opposites.
You could even look at it this way; All liars would become honest citizens, all destructive equines would lose that particular tendancy. Admittedly there are a few flaws in my plan. OK, maybe all the truthful ponies would become the new liars and we'd have a few more pyromaniacs and the like.
I like to think that it's a work in progress, so my next idea was to make sure that those ponies with destrucive tendancies were stripped of their magic for those unicorns.
A simple switch ey?
Awaken
Cloudscape, home to the Pegasi of Equestria, was only just waking up. Everyone had had a night off, what with it being the eve of the Summer Sun Celebration, when the Princess did all of their work for them as part of her ceramony. In fact, a certain pony with a rainbow for a mane, and a storm for a cutie mark was waking up that moment to find that something was slightly wrong. For one thing, she was falling through the clouds.
Abruptly, she righted herself so that the world looked vaguely recognisable through the jet stream, and attempted to flap her wings... which were not there.
Rainbow Dash sobered up amazingly fast from that little incident.
Well, she realised that there was a good posablity that this fall would be at best painful. The worst didn't bear thinking about. The veins of effort could be seen clearly, even through the early morning fog, and there seemed to be a faint glowing coming from the centre of her forehead. Panicked, Rainbow quickly glanced up and saw the faint outline of a horn, cyan in colour, and glowing slightly.
'OK' she thought, I appear to have become a Unicorn spontaniously, just after losing a very useful perk of being a pegasi in my current situation.
She desparately concentrated on somehow making her new appendage work, do something, anything. She succeeded in making her head hurt, and saw stars for a few precious moments.
What was it that Twilight said; 'You need to focus on what you want' or along those lines, damn, Rainbow wished that she'd paid more attention to her friend when she'd been talking about this sort of thing. She desperately focused on not falling, picturing just staying static in the air. Her horn flashed brightly, giving her an even worse headache, and it took her a moment or two to realise that she wasn't falling anymore. She looked down and saw that she was literally a metre above the ground, and was staring into the eyes of an equally bewildered Fluttershy, who was cowering slightly.
'Erm... hi rainbow' She mumbled.
'...!' was the entirety of her reaction as she tried to regulate her breathing and ignore a rather serious question.
'Erm... Are you alright?'
This was enough to snap Rainbow out of her trance.
'What do you think? I just fell out of the sky and only just saved myself from a visit to A and E!' she snapped, This did however divert her focus slightly, and the next thing she knew, she was on the ground in a heap.
The last thing she heard before she passed out was
'I'll take that as a no?'
An equally dramatic reaction was being had at the library, Twilight was in a panic. It was easy to see this with the screams and thuds that were echoing around the library.
Inside, the scene was slightly more chaotic. A baby dragon was rolling on the floor, laughing his head off, while a slightly less bemused Twilight was trying to figure out how on earth you were meant to live without Magic, and cope with the two Lilac wings that were now attached to her midriff.
Suffice it to say that she wasn't taking it well.
In fact. She wasn't taking it even slightly well.
The conversation between the two consisted of a monologue from Twilight, with a voice 3 octaves too high, as Spike Chukled in the middle of the room:
"But this is impossible, you can't just stop being a Unicorn and become a Pegasus, that's just impossible" and words to that effect.
"How am I going to be able to write all of my letters to the princess now?" she wailed.
Admittedly, this did cause Spike to pause for a moment to add in:
"You've just lost your magic and become a Pegasus, and you're worried about a few letters!?"
Twilight was so lost in her own thoughts that she didn't even hear him.
"NO, No, this can't be happening, it's just some wierd dream that I'm having, it must have been that cake from Pinkie's: I've known you for a year party. Yes, that must be it."
And with that she stopped and waited.
Spikes hesitent voice could now be heard easily in the sudden silence.
"Twilight. Are you ok?"
Her reply was worryingly calm.
"Of course I am Spike, this is all a dream. I just have to wake up, and everything will be back to normal."
He left her alone for a good 10 minutes before he finally plucked up the courage to ask.
"And this dream involves me being awake, and everyone else being in said state?"
Her left ear flapped once, but she didn't reply.
"And if this is a dream, then this would wake you --OUCH!"
The hole in the wall was where the last part came from, but from within his claws, you could still make out a solitary violet hair from Twilight's Tail.
"How are you meant to get these wings to work anyway?" Said the hyperactive Mare. To which she attempted to flap her wings, succeeding only in making herself look like a beetroot and sending Spike into another fit of giggles. He gradually stopped as it dawned on him that he was upside down and his gem stash was being crumbled before his eyes.
"Did you have to do that?" he dead-panned, his arms folded and his eyes showing as much contempt as he could muster, whilst still trying to realise that his precious gems had been disintegrated before his eyes. He made a mental note to lie low at AppleJacks for a few days, at this rate, Twilight was going to go mental within the next day.
"mhphmm" came the muffled reply. Twilight spat out Spike's tail and dropped the baby dragon on the floor so that he could mourn his lost Gems. And she wondered why on earth she had become a pegasus and lost her magic.
The tone of the Apple Family was somewhat different.
"Erm, Big Mac?"
"Eeeyup?"
"'ave we just become alicorns or somethin?"
"Eeeyup."
"... oh."
